im not in any band camp. sorry but i don't play that sheep game.
just because i detest cores controls and centralisation of their roadmap plans. does not mean im in other camps.
i have not touched my main hoard since 2013 so i dont swing either way. i just have a birds eye view over the whole landscape
merchant adoption of selling produce in the real world for cores chain has dropped. the tx fee drama caused that.
and before you even try more FUD. the fee drama was caused by mixers. not by pools and not by 2 certain guys reddit points fingers at.. if you cared to look beyond the reddit sheep copy and past propaganda drama.
anyway back to merchant adoption.
have you even bothered checking on how coinbase and bitpay have changed... i guess not
as for the article you linked all its blasting is newegg.. funny thing is newegg has been accepting bitcoin since 2014
but now go and check out coinbase and bitpay and you will see why the article YOU posted says "demand for cryptocurrencies".. and then appends 'future growth for bitcoin'
you will see that merchants have moved away from cores network (apart from a few big OLD names that remained loyal hense named singularly) with the hope the thousands of others that use other cryptocurrency switch back in the future once core/if core can sort their crap out
and as i said, in the end it will probably be that something like litecoin or ethereum whichs ends up dominating the merchant acceptance market, because if you actually look beyond the couple named core loyalists. you will see many many more made a shift.
but hey. when you see core devs themselves admit that cores chain is not for merchants, but for store of value. and even big named fanboys like andreas saying if you dont like cores roadmap go play with other coins..
samson mow said prtty much the same thing, cores chain isnt for meerchants. but for value store
many fanboys/core loyalists have literally been screaming that cores chain is not the "buy coffee for btc" purpose
thus not even trying to retain merchants.. you cant deny that cores chain is losing its merchant desirability and core dont care.
most devs, dont think of bitcoin as an ecomomy. their buzzword is "experiment" and they are too afraid to even take it out of beta. because to them its a game, not an economy
but again hey. stick your head in the loyalist sand and pretend core are your kings and deserve their decision making power to ruin the original ethos of bitcoin and move away from the 2009-2014 purpose of bitcoin.
enjoy your home in the other field with the sheep that all agree with you that its all your home. even if the landscape is different than the original field
maybe next time. take off the core defence cap.. and wear the bitcoin 2009-2014 ethos defence cap. you know think about bitcoin(2009-2014). not core.. then you might see beyond the field you have set as your home to see the wider landscape.